Riesner helped pen the screenplays for two Eastwood films in 1971, Play Misty for Me and the original Dirty Harry.

We've just checked and he was indeed referring to the Eastwood film, so we've taken the definite article off.

They said Ms. Streep was offered the role in the Eastwood film to dissuade her from starring in "Crisis."

Changeling sits with other late-period Eastwood films in which parenting-and, the search for family-is a theme.

"Slain" was based on the Eastwood film High Plains Drifter.

An ongoing lawsuit, in response to Eastwood allegedly ramming a woman's car, resulted in no Eastwood films being shown in cinemas in 1991.

Mr. Riesner often contributed to Eastwood films, but the Hollywood penchant for putting a script through multiple rewrites sometimes made it difficult to prove who wrote what.

Tonight's emphasis (and that of a series running intermittently from tomorrow until Nov. 25) will be showing off the museum's already sizable collection of Eastwood films.

This movie bears similarities to previous Eastwood films featuring his Man with No Name character and his 1973 western High Plains Drifter.

Its earnings of more than $13 million on its opening weekend was the best ever opening for an Eastwood film.